SUNA Spotlight: Todd Morningstar
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Last year’s Great
Lakes SUNA Member of the Year Todd
Morningstar, LPN, says he joined SUNA against his will.
OK, so it wasn’t
exactly against his will, but it took some friendly nudging and peer pressure
from a well-known SUNA advocate.
“I used to work with
the local chapter president (Susanne Quallich) and she beat me up until I joined.” Todd
laughed. “Anything to shut her up. But I’m glad that I
did join.”
Todd, who may hold
the distinction of having the most unique last name in the
Making the jump to
urology from mental health, Todd was reluctant at first, but looking back, he
says it was a smart decision.
“They closed the
mental health unit where I was working and I was offered a job in urology,”
remembers Todd. “I started here in 1995 and I’ve been here ever since and loved
every minute of it.”
He earned his LPN
license from
Now a member-at-large
on the Great Lakes SUNA Board of Directors, Todd has presented at the last two
spring conferences
“Being a member (of
SUNA) provided a lot of insight and learning activities in the field of urology,”
says Todd. “There is a wealth of information at the dinner meetings and talking
with others in the field.”
Todd has been married
to Kari for 15 years and the happy couple has eight kids, well, sort of.
“All of our kids have
four legs and a tail,” smiles Todd. “We have eight dogs and do a lot of activities
with the dogs. We do agility, flyball and disc. I'm
also a North American Flyball Association judge and
have been on the NAFA board the last five years.
“Between work and my
personal life, things have never been better.”